Inbetween Me and You
Location
You are hilarious, the joker, the funny one
the comic relief
Quips fall off Your tongue like water and raise off Your body like sunlight and You
the comedian
Take your throne as people fall in line around You, attracted to Your words
not your personality or, God forbid, your feelings
And at the end of the day You go home and You laugh at Your own jokes
and look at your phone as nobody answers, they never answer
And at the end of the day You sit in Your room and preen on Your throne
alone yet again
And at the end of the day You peel off Your skin and let Me out
and you are never really alone
And at the end all that is left is Me and the white noise
and the laughter echoing back at you
Before You put Me back in the back of Your mind
with the laughter and your feelings and the remnants of your personality and I
And You
And we laugh and laugh and it sounds like choked back sobs